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A comment on SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships. Parent comment

Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by kevinh on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:39PM (#19934166)
Equality of opportunity seems like a pipe dream to me. Are you really going to equalize socioeconomic status? Parental skills? Pollution? Proximity to opportunities? Those all determine the opportunities one has access to.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by enraged_camel on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:40PM (#19934179)
That's not an argument against trying to equalize those things.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by ryanobjc on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:20PM (#19935632)
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